{"id":886,"date":"2010-09-16T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T09:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-09-16T17:28:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T09:28:52","slug":"437","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/437\/","title":{"rendered":"Skies Over Changzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-438\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all the stories one hears about smog and pollution, this scene is one that wouldn&#8217;t be expected. \u00a0Yet, this is exactly as it looks &#8211; blue skies do exist in China. \u00a0But to be honest, not that often. \u00a0Usually when the clouds are absent, the sky is a very pale blue because of the haze and the smog. \u00a0Sometimes you can almost taste the pollution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-439\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03873.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what it looked like while we walked to class yesterday morning. \u00a0The sun was making a valiant attempt at showing it was still there. \u00a0From what our students tell us, it is different in rural China, away from the factory cities like Changzhou.<\/p>\n<p>At night, the air quality seems to get worse, not better. \u00a0From what local people tell us, this is because many factories use darkness to hide breaking the rules about emissions. \u00a0With darkness they can shut off the equipment that filters the emissions and thus reduce operating costs. \u00a0With daylight, the filters are turned back on and all looks as it should.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution aside, I have to say that my allergies are non-existent. \u00a0Strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the stories one hears about smog and pollution, this scene is one that wouldn&#8217;t be expected. \u00a0Yet, this is exactly as it looks &#8211; blue skies do exist in China. \u00a0But to be honest, not that often. \u00a0Usually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/437\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,23,28,33,75,100,123,152,176,201,238],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-quality","tag-c-i-t","tag-changzhou","tag-china","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-jiangsu","tag-monitoring","tag-pollution","tag-smog","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}